Tim Laurie’s waterfall photos

During SWAAG president Tim Laurie’s searches for ancient tree specimens surviving in remote places, he photographed some of the wildest and most-inaccessible places in the northern dales, in particular narrow gills with spectacular waterfalls. For information and images about the trees, see the menu page Nature/Woodland Project.

Below is a selection of the best of Tim’s waterfall images. To discover more about them, click the category PDF links above each section, and then scroll to the record numbers indicated in the captions under each image.

Tree Sites 1 category PDF

Looking down into a deep hollow containing a deep peat-coloured pool below a narrow, straight-drop waterfall where the beck above has been squeezed into a narrow gully.
Little Sleddale Beck, upper falls, Birkdale Common, NY 830 017. Tree Sites 1, record 308.
View upstream to a wide waterfall crashing over rocks between the high rocky cliffs of a deep gill.
Falls below Hazel Bank, River Cover, SD 999 777. Tree Sites 1, record 309.
At a cliff edge in a steep-sided gill, the beck crashes over steep rocks into a peat-coloured pool.
Great Ash Gill upper falls, NY 869 007. Tree Sites 1, record 328.
A moorland beck descending through a ravine over a series of at least six short falls.
Jenny Whalley Force, Hoods Bottom Beck, NY 862 035. Tree Sites 1, record 343, also Geographical, record 764.
High-level view of three-stage waterfalls, the bottom two falling great heights into deep coves. Either side of the treeless gill is rough grass, shale and some rock outcrops.
Hoods Bottom Beck, upper and lower falls, NY 865 047, Tree Sites 1, record 347, also Geological 1, record 244, and Geographical, record 764.
View upstream to a wide, low, river waterfall in a wooded dale.
Wainwath Force, River Swale, NY 883 016. Tree Sites 1, record 349.
Side-on view across a deep moorland pool below a waterfall descending a shallow rock slope to an edge where the water crashes into the pool. Either side are treeless grassy banks.
Startindale Gill falls, NY 885 041. Tree Sites 1, record 351.
At a tree-lined cove, a waterfall crashes over a cliff edge into a peat-coloured rocky pool.
Pry Hill Falls on East Stonesdale Beck, NY 897 015. Tree Sites 1, record 352.

Tree Sites 2 category PDF

Looking across the top edge of a low, broad, moorland waterfall where the beck falls onto a rock shelf before crashing down another drop. The beck can be see flowing away down a rocky bed in narrow, treeless, grassy ravine.
Hind Hole Falls on East Stonesdale Beck, NY 899 024. Tree Sites 2, record 359.
Looking down on a moorland beck as it descends several layers of chaotic rock formations forming small pools under each fall.
Lover Gill lower falls, SD 879 963. Tree Sites 2, records 376.
Looking up a steep gill at a ledge where there is probably a pool hidden from view underneath a straight-drop waterfall at the centre of a sheer rocky cove.
Swinner Gill head falls, NY 911 014. Tree Sites 2, record 381.
Close-up view across the top of a waterfall with a grassy bank in the foreground.
Cliff Beck lower falls, SD 888 973. Tree Sites 2, record 464.
Looking down into a steep moorland gill where straight ahead the beck is seen to descend a staircase of rocky ledges.
Summer Lodge Beck head falls, SD 964 956. Tree Sites 2, record 480.
Looking across the top edge of a moorland cliff-backed cove below a grass-banked gill. The gill beck is seen cascading over the cliff edge into the cove.
Botcher Gill Gate Falls, off Gunnerside Gill, NY 935 006. Tree Sites 2, record 492.

Tree Sites 3 category PDF and Tree Sites 4 category PDF

Looking down into a treeless moorland gill where the beck falls over layers of rock into a pool below.
Eweleap Scar Falls, Gunnerside Gill, NY 939 024. Tree Sites 3, record 494.
Looking up a steep grassy and rocky gill to a rock wall where at the centre a beck falls over several layers of rock.
Huggill Force, Huggil Sike, Greta Valley, NY 977 125. Tree Sites 3, record 518.
A moorland beck is seen to fall in small stages over chaotic rock formations in a shallow. rock-lined gill.
Trough Heads falls, Sleightholme Beck, Teesdale, NY 966 114. Tree Sites 3, record 520.
Close-up of the top edge of a powerful waterfall where a river cascades over a curved edge and crashes into a pool below.
Kisdon High Force, River Swale, NY 897 009. Tree Sites 3, record 609.
In a tree-lined gill a beck cascades over a wide rock edge, falling in two stages into a large pool below.
Orgate Force, Marske Beck, NZ 091 018. Tree Sites 4, record 886.

Geological 1 category PDF

Looking up a grass-sided moorland gill where straight ahead the beck falls off the neat straight line of a rock ledge onto chaotic rocks below and then into a small pool.
Little Sleddale Beck lower falls, NY 832 020. Geological 1, record 178.
Looking down on a rocky cove where two or three thin streams of a hidden beck are seen to fall directly into a rocky pool.
Great Punchard Gill, NY 948 041. Geological 1, record 533.
Looking straight at a cliff wall interrupted at top left by a gap in which a beck crashes over the wall, hitting more rocks on the way down and then disappearing into what must be a pool surrounded almost entirely by high rocks.
White Force, Black Ark Beck, Cronkley Fell, Teesdale, NY 852 280. Geological 1, record 632
Looking from a rock pool directly upwards at a high stream of beck water falling from the top of a rocky cove and cascading over several layers of rock.
Hoods Bottom Beck, lower falls, NY 865 047. Geological 1, record 244, also Tree Sites 1, record 347, and Geographical, record 764.

Geological 2 category PDF

A man and a woman standing on the right look left over a sloping rock ledge at head height towards a cliff, at the foot of which a stream of water is seen to cascade along the ledge.
Ladthwaite Beck falls on Dent Fault at Ewebank Scar, NY 785 073. Geological 2, record 824.
Looking from the grassy bank of a sparsely tree-lined gill at a wide beck descending in stages down a rocky waterfall and into a deep pool.
Hunder Beck lower falls, Baldersdale, NY 930 175. Geological 2, record 972.
Looking up a chaotic staircase of rock down which descends the narrow stream of a moorland beck.
Mawmon Sike falls, Cotherstone Moor, NY 925 171. Geological 2, record 973.

Geographical category PDF

Looking from the bank of a steep-sided moorland gill where the beck falls over layers of rock into a pool before continuing steeply down over more rocks.
Uldale Beck lower falls, NY 812 032. Geographical, record 835.
Looking down into a deep moorland cove with a narrow waterfall plunging into a peat-coloured pool.
Hoods Bottom Beck, upper falls, NY 865 047. Geographical, record 764, also Tree Sites 1, record 347, and Geological 1, record 244.
A moorland beck descending through a ravine over a series of at least six short falls.
Jenny Whalley Force, Hoods Bottom Beck, NY 862 035. Tree Sites 1, record 343, also Geographical, record 764.

Lithic/Scatter category PDF and Photographic category PDF

Looking upstream at a wide river as it descends over two phases of low rock ledges. The banks are rocks on both sides, topped by trees.
Low Force, lowest falls, River Tees, NY 902 280. Lithic/Scatter, record 648.
Looking up a steep and narrow, treeless gill on the high moors where a narrow beck is seen to descend rapidly over a rock bed forming a continuous run of ledges and mini-waterfalls.
Hunder Beck upper falls, Baldersdale, NY 929 169. Photographic, record 979.